Guide foe sewing machines



2 Sheets- Shet 1.

(No Model.)

J. BUSAGKER.

BINDING GUIDE FOR SEWING MACHINES.

No. 350,113. Patented Oct. 5, 1886.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

J. BUSAOKER.

BINDING GUIDE FOR SEWING MACHINES.

Patented Oct.- 5, 1886.

N. PETERSv Pmmuum m mn Washmglon. D.C.

UNITED STATES PATENT Grains...

JOHN BUSA(KER, OF U'll )A, NEW YORK.

BlNDlNG-GUIDE FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

LPBCIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,113, dated October 5, 1886.

Application tiled July 21?. I884.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that 1, JOHN Bl'SAUliER, of the city of Utica, in the county of Oneida and State 01' New York, and a eitizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful 11nprovement in Bimling-Gnides for Sewing Machines; and I do hereby declare the l'ollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to 1 he ae eonipanying drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon.

My invention relates to the meehanism provided for appling binding by means of a sewing-machine to the surface of cloth, as hereiir after more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a section of the clotlrplate of a sewing-machine, presser-i'oot, binding-guide, elotlrguide, and a section ofthe head of a sewingmachine. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the nesserlbot and plate carrying the bimling-guide. It also shows the cloth. guide in its working position. Fig. 3 is a plan view 01' the cloth-guide. Fig. l is a front side View of the same. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the 1n-esser-foot and plate. Fig. 6 is an end view of the same. Fig. 7 is a top view of a bindinggnide. Fig. 8 is a side View of the same. Fig. 9 is a top view of an adjustable slide working in binding-guide, Figs. 7 and 8. Fig. 10 is a side view of the said slide. Fig. 11 is a front View of the nesseiiioot.

Having described my invention by reference to the fign res marked on the accompanying drawings, I will. now proceed to describe the same by reference to the letters marked thereon, in which similar letters refer to the corresponding parts throughout the several views.

A represents a portion of the sewing-mm ehine cloth-plate.

A represents an ordinary sewing-machine head.

A represents thenecdlebar with the needle in the same.

A* represents the presser-foot bar.

n represents an adjustable cloth-guide.

(1. represents the front arm oi. the clothguide.

16" represents the rear arm of the cloth-guide.

a (63 represent projecting lugs against which the cloth is moved under the nesser-l'oot.

(i represents a longitudinal slot. by means Serial Xo. liirjlll (No model.)

of which the adjustment oi the cloth-guide is secured and accomplished. This cloth-guide is held to the surface oi the plate of the sewlllg'llltltllllll. by means ol a set-screw, a, which secures a horizontal adjustment of the same, to accommodate dil'l'ereni widths of binding. On the under side of the pressenl'oot, between the needlehole and the outer end of the foot, I provide a set-screw or projection. d, which forms a stop which limits the lateral movemerit of the braid, and prevenisihe cloth from crowding the binding away from the needle. (See Fig. ll.)

(6 represents an oilsei in the surl'aee oi. the cloth-guide to accommodate raised plates in some sewing machines. It is obvious that these may be omitted without interfering with the usefulness (l' my invention.

The cloth-guide is made with l'orked projections, and the bindingguide works in the bifurcation U in the cloth-guide, which projections extend to the edge of the cloth each side of the prcsser-l'oot plate.

1) represents the presser-l'oot and plate combined. I) I) represent projecting lugs on the upper surface thereof, by means of which the same is secured to the presser-i'oot bar of an ordinary sewing-machine.

If represents a semicircular hearing on the under surface of the presscidoot and plate b, under which the cloth and bindingare moved by the feed. motion of the sewingmachine when the machine is in operation.

A rabbeted surface, I), on the under side oi the pressenfoot, forms a depression for the reception of the binding-guide, and a bindinggnide, 0, formed of two parallel surfaces, is connected at one end, as indicated in Fig. 8, through a sermv-hole, e, by a set-screw, d.

A longitudi nally-adj ustable gage, c, is adapted to lit in the binding-guide,between the up per and lower surfaces of the same, and it is secured in its adjustable position by the same set-screw which holds the binding-guide in position. Thus the set-screw serves the don ble purpose of locking the gage in place and of holding the binding-guide to the presserfoot. This gage has a longitudinal slot, if, which facilitates its adjustment to accommodate any width of binding.

It is obvious that the U shaped guide may be used without the gage, and that the U- ICC shaped guide may be used without the adj ustable cloth-gnide,or without any cloth-guide at all,whether the binding'gnide is or is'not pro- LII vided with an adjustable gage.

The operation of my device is as follows: The presser-footandpresser-foot plate to which thebinding guide and gage are secured, are fastened to the vertical bar of an ordinary sewing-machine. The cloth-guide is adjusted to accommodate the width of the binding to be applied,and the gage is set in. the slotted binding-guide to the proper adjustment to accommodate the binding and hold it from lateral movement. The cloth and binding are placed under the resser-foot, and the braid or binding is then fed under the machine by the ordinary feeding device, and the binding and cloth are stitched together by the needle in. the usual manner.

It is obvious that the elongated bindingguide might be attached to an ordinary'presser-foot with slight changes and the adjustable gage dispensed with, or the same may be attached and operated in the opposite direction without departing from the spirit of my invention. It is also quite apparent that the elongated binding-guide with out the gage may be used with the adjustable cloth-guide without I in any way departing from the Spirit of my invention.

From the foregoing it will appear that the binding-guide described may be used to advantage in several ways, either with or without the gage or cloth-guide, and I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to its use in combination with this gage and cloth-guide, although by using these elements together the most satisfactory results are obtained.

It is obvious that the elongated bindingguide might be attached to an ordinary presser-foot with slight changes and the adjustable gage dispensed with, or the same may be attached and operated in the opposite direct ion. It is also obvious that the elongated binding-guide without the gage may be used with the adjustable cloth-guide without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim- 1. In a binding-guide attachment for sewing-machines, a presser foot and extensionplate, in combination with a single elongated slotted guide which receives and accommodates a single flat bindingand guides the same to one side of the cloth, and a longitudinally-adjustable gage fitted between the free ends of the U shaped guidc,substantially as described.

2. In a bindingguide attachment for sewing-machines, a presser-foot and its extensionplate, said plate having a screw-threaded perforation, in combination with a perforated binding-guide, and an adjustable gage fitting in between the free or disconnected ends of the U-shaped guide, all secured to the presser-foot and its extension-plate by a set-screw in one compact deviee,substantially as described.

3. In a binding-guide attachment for sewing-machines, the longitudinally-slotted binding-guide, which receives and accommodates the binding, and a gage that confines .it against lateral movement away from the needle, in combination with a presser-foot and extensionplate, and the set-screw to hold the parts to gether, substantially as described.

4..In a binding-guide attachment for sewing-machines, the presser-t'oot and its extension plate provided with a longitudinallyslotted binding-guide, and an adjustable gage for said binding-guide, in combination with a bifurcated slotted cloth-guide, substantially as as described.

5. In a binding-guide attachment for sewing-machines, the longitudinally-adjustable bifurcated cloth-guide having on its bifurcated ends the enlargements or lugs a a each side of the binding-guide, in combination with a single flat binding-guide, and means for securing them in position, substantially as described.

6. In a sewing-machine, a presser-ioot and extension-plate having on its lower side a single flat binding-guide, and means for securing it to the extension-plate, in combination with an adjustable elotlrguide.

7. I11 a sewing-machine, a )resser-l"oot and its extension-plate provided with a single slotted flat binding-guide under the lower portion of the presser't'oot extension, and the set-screw to hold the same in position.

8. In. a flat bindingguide attachment for sewing machines, the rabbeted presser-foot plate and its extension, in combination with a single slotted fiat binding-guide secured be neath the pressersfoot and extension-plate.

Signed at Utica, New York, this 21st day of J uly, 1.884.

- JOB) BUSAOKER.

\Vitnesses:

GEORGE G. CARTER, EDWARD WELLs. 

